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Effectively Navigate Your Operating Context in the VUCA Environment

Allan Cheng
6 min readOct 31, 2020

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It is important to recognize your operating context, especially in a VUCA environment, as many companies has spiraled down the unilluminated abyss of fallacy by either over-analyzing or overly dependent on weak heuristics in their decision-making when navigating their operating context.

Understanding The Cynefin Framework

Looking from a broader perspective, Snowden and Boone (2007) offer four different contexts relevant to an ordered and unordered domain to help us expand our views on problem definition. A relevant video is shared below for a comprehension of the different contexts before we dive into the VUCA-Organizational Decision-making Model.

Now, with a better understanding of the different operating contexts and the respective responses, let’s us look at the more common contexts often presented to organizations in today’s context.

VUCA-Organizational Decision-making Model

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